| English Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1Then Job answered and said: | 1Then Job replied: |
| 2“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? | 2"How long will you torment me and crush me with words? |
| 3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? | 3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me. |
| 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. | 4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. |
| 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, |
| 6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. | 6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. |
| 7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. | 7"Though I cry, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. |
| 8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness. |
| 9He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
| 10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. | 10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree. |
| 11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. | 11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies. |
| 12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. | 12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
| 13“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. | 13"He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
| 14My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. | 14My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me. |
| 15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. | 15My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger. |
| 16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. | 16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth. |
| 17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. | 17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. |
| 18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. | 18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me. |
| 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. | 19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me. |
| 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | 20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! | 21"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? |
| 23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | 23"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, |
| 24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! | 24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! |
| 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. | 25I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. |
| 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, | 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; |
| 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! | 27I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! |
| 28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ | 28"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,' |
| 29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” | 29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment." |
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